Win8 upgrade experience

What's your boot config look like now?

I haven't been "cheating" yet - so I 'll have to look at the tut. Can you post a link? Don't want to look at the wrong one - Mr. Brink is very prolific :)

Off hand, I'd guess that the rec is for dual booting, not a general rec for Win8.

Thanks,

Bill
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DavidW7ncus said:

ThrashZone said:

The only thing that is bugging me is the win-8 boot manager,
It's really slow,
Last shut down coming from win-7 is the fastest mostly because if you/ I were last on win-7 and shut down,
Restart would use win-7 boot manager not win-8 boot manager,

But if you/ I were to shut down from win-8 restart would use win-8 boot manager on startup,
It's still only a couple of minutes but win-7 going either 7 or 8 only takes seconds to complete the transition,
Very odd,
Might have something to do with disabling fast start in win-8 as Brink's tutorial recommends disabling fast startup on win-8 side ?
Cheers.

I set Win 7 x64 as the default Boot OS.
With that setting the PC always uses the Win 7 boot selection screen.
I like that much better than the Win 8 boot selection screen.
I used EasyBCD for this, but you should be able to set the default with msconfig or BCD commands.

I do the same thing as you Dave. I think what actually happens if you set it to 8 as default Windows 8 almost completely loads then asks you to choose. If you choose 8 the sign on screen appears right away. If you choose 7 the machine restarts and loads Windows 7 which take a while. It just cheats to make 8 look faster than 7.

Interesting read here. I have switched to 8 as my only OS. I found I don't need a start menu, just made my start screen good for me.

Slartybart said:

What's your boot config look like now?

I haven't been "cheating" yet - so I 'll have to look at the tut. Can you post a link? Don't want to look at the wrong one - Mr. Brink is very prolific :)

Off hand, I'd guess that the rec is for dual booting, not a general rec for Win8.

Thanks,

Bill
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Near the bottom #11 I believe,
Dual Boot Installation - Windows 8 and Windows 7 or Vista
I'm not sure if this is effecting booting to win-7 or not ?
Fast Startup - Turn On or Off in Windows 8

But yes indeed win-7 default all the way changed to 5 seconds

Dude said:

Interesting read here. I have switched to 8 as my only OS. I found I don't need a start menu, just made my start screen good for me.

Yes the borg has you now Duquitice

ThrashZone said:

Dude said:

Interesting read here. I have switched to 8 as my only OS. I found I don't need a start menu, just made my start screen good for me.

Yes the borg has you now Duquitice

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ThrashZone said:

Slartybart said:

What's your boot config look like now?

I haven't been "cheating" yet - so I 'll have to look at the tut. Can you post a link? Don't want to look at the wrong one - Mr. Brink is very prolific :)

Off hand, I'd guess that the rec is for dual booting, not a general rec for Win8.

Thanks,

Bill
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Near the bottom #11 I believe,
Dual Boot Installation - Windows 8 and Windows 7 or Vista
I'm not sure if this is effecting booting to win-7 or not ?
Fast Startup - Turn On or Off in Windows 8

But yes indeed win-7 default all the way changed to 5 seconds

Thanks Mike,

I'm wondering if some of the comments about booting to Win8 and slower shutdown might be related to the hybrid solution. A quick scan of the links (very quick, so I might be way off base) indicates that hibernation is used to speed up Win8 boot.

If I read that correctly then, Win8 shutdown writes the hiberfile (has to be down at shut down to speed up startup). So here's my guess - turn off hibernation.

I don't use that feature (hibernation) and Win8 boots fairly fast.

Any takers on testing turning off hibernation with dual boot to see how that affects shutdown and startup?

Bill
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